Nancy said Fraud That she started calling the San Jose Police Department and eventually was linked to Financial Fraud Unit it. Jose Martinez in September 2015.
The now retired detective said in Fraud That he knew it would not be easy to prove that someone lied about having cancer, as medical records are private according to federal law. And at first, he said, he had to consider the possibility that the tipster was “just an angry family member or someone who was mocked, just tried to get someone in trouble.”
According to Martinez, a big break came when he asked a lawyer who represented Amanda for a bit verifiable proof that she had cancer with whom he could close the case. “The time passed,” he said in the series, and then he – in an e -post appendix – received a letter from a doctor at Santa Clara Klara Permanente Clinic who referred to Amanda as a cancer patient.
When he called the hospital to verify the document, Martinez continued, they were “super -safe” about the patient’s confidentiality but he was finally told that a letter was sent to Amanda, “” but not for it. “
“Now I have a fraudulent medical letter,” said the retired detective in Fraud. “I thought, wow, we have a case.”
But having to “greater reach,” he said, he contacted the IRS’s financial crimes.
